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Djeneba Aduayom

The Flawed Genius of the Constitution

The document counted my great-great-grandfather equally three-fifths of a free person. But the Framers don't own the version we live past today. We do. The document is our responsibility now.

Hudson Christie

America'due south Plastic Hour Is Upon U.s.a.

The country is at a low indicate. But we may be on the cusp of an era of radical reform that repairs our broken democracy.

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The New Reconstruction

The Us has its all-time opportunity in 150 years to tardily fulfill its promise every bit a multiracial democracy.

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Get Ready for the Great Urban Comeback

Visionary responses to catastrophes accept changed city life for the better.

Joshua Rashaad McFadden

The New Southern Strategy

How Black mayors in the Southward are leveraging both the power of role and the power of the street to achieve overdue changes

Arsh Raziuddin

Ability Shortage

Women'due south rights are human being rights. Only rights are null without the power to claim them.

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Nosotros Killed the Center Class. Here'due south How We Can Revive It.

By helping i another reach our total potential, we'll help the whole country get its swagger dorsum.

A photo of 'Strike' (2018) by Hank Willis Thomas: a sculpture of one arm holding another arm with a baton
<i>Strike</i> (2018) by Hank Willis Thomas. Courtesy of the creative person and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
Johanna Goodman

America Needs a Rebirth of Public Service

We demand every ounce of talent and energy to not only rebuild but reinvent our society.

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If Biden Wins, He'll Have to Put the World Dorsum Together

His mail service-pandemic agenda will have to be a master form in redesign.